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numerous addresses by travellers, there were papers by Mr. J. Y. Buchanan on the 

 influence of land on the temperature of the air ; by Mr. H.N. Dickson on the sea 

 between Scotland and the Faroe Isles; and by Dr. H. R. Mill on the Clyde Sea Area 

 and on the English Lakes. 



The Anthropologists began with Mrs. Grove's paper on the Ethnographic 

 Aspect of Dancing, and had numerous interesting discussions both on Ethnographical 

 and Antiquarian subjects. The event of the meeting seems to have been Mr. A. 

 Bulleld's description of the ancient British village recently explored by him near 

 Glastonbury. Mr. E. W. Brabrook communicated the first report of the committee 

 for undertaking an ethnographic survey of the British Isles ; and Professor Hans 

 Hildebrand, of Stockholm, discussed Scandinavian antiquities. Dr. J. H. Gladstone 

 also started a somewhat indecisive discussion on the possibility of recognising a 

 copper age between the ages of stone and bronze. 



The General Committee of the British Association awarded grants of money 

 for investigations in Natural Science as follows : — Erratic blocks, £15 ; Fossil 

 Phyllopoda, ^5 ; Geological photographs, ;^io; Shell-bearing deposits, £5; 

 Eurypterids, ^5; New sections of Stonesfield Slate, £25; Earth tremors, £50; 

 E.xploralion of Calf Hole Cave, £5 ; Table at Naples Zoological Station, ;^ioo, and 

 at Plymouth Station, £1^ ; Zoology of Sandwich Islands, /^loo ; Zoology of Irish 

 Sea, £^0 ; Mammalian heart, ;^io ; Climatology and hydrography of Tropical 

 Africa, £10; Observations in South Georgia, /50 ; Exploration in Arabia, £30; 

 Anthropometric Laboratory statistics, £^ ; Ethnographical survey of United 

 Kingdom, £10 ; The Lake Village at Glastonbury, /40 ; Anthropometrical measure- 

 ments in schools, £§ ; Mental and physical condition of children, ;^2o ; Corresponding 

 societies, £2^. The total amount expended in grants was £jo^. 



The British Association meets next year at Oxford early in August, under the 

 presidency of the Marquis of Salisbury, Chancellor of the University. A new section 

 for Physiology will then be inaugurated. The invitation of the town of Ipswich has 

 been accepted for 1895 



The nomination of the Marquis of Salisbury for the Presidency, which has 

 met with general approval, was proposed by Sir Frederick Bramwell and seconded 

 by Sir William Flower. It is rarely that one sees gratitude for past favours so tact- 

 fully expressed as in the remarks of Sir William Flower, reported in the Nottingham 

 Daily Guardian of September ig. Sir William said: "Lord Salisbury had shown 

 general sympathy with all branches of science for a long time, and he was the first 

 Prime Minister to recognise that men of science might sometimes aspire to honours 

 and distinctions which had hitherto been reserved for successful soldiers or 

 barristers and others. He had made a scientific man on his own merits a member 

 of the peerage, and had appointed another purely scientific man a member of the 

 Privy Council." 



The Toynbee Hall Natural History Society, Whitechapel, is still actively 

 pursuing its good work in the East End of London. During the winter, meetings 

 are regularly held at the Hall, and during the summer cheap excursions, of long 

 and short duration, are organised to various districts of interest. The longest 

 excursion of the past season was a visit of fifteen days to the island of Jersey. 

 The party, numbering seventeen, started on Friday, July 28, and returned Saturda}-, 

 August 12. The headquarters during the whole of the time were at Gorey, on the 

 S.E. coast of the island. Those taking part in the expedition represented three 

 sections — Botany, Geology, and Zoology. For the purposes of systematic work, 

 a portion of the island was allotted to each day, so that the whole of the coast and 

 much of the interior was covered during the visit. 



